"For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
This update comes to you from
Norfolk, Virginia
It is the first stop on our transit south
from Deltaville to The Bahamas.
Initially we will travel the ICW
but hope to move more quickly
using an offshore route from Beaufort, NC.
Whether we do or not is weather dependant.
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Dear Family and Friends,

Some of you may have begun to wonder if we were ever going to depart Deltaville -
we certainly were!  Just when our windlass project finished, we were treated to ferocious
winds and below freezing weather which kept us from finishing our final project which
requires calm wind and above freezing weather - hanging the boat from slings to clean
her hull and to load new anchor chain and new anchor.  We only did that on 14 Jan but as
a result missed a rare window to transit offshore around Cape Hatteras.  

On the next possible day we could leave, 1/16, we actually attempted to plow through the
ice of Broad Creek only to be foiled by a layer of ice 3"- 4" thick!  ...and we weren't the
only ones - two other sailboats finally made it out around mid-afternoon - too late for us to
make the 12 hour transit to Norfolk.  Yesterday it rained cats & dogs all day PLUS we
endured a fierce thunder and lightening storm.  
Good news is all the ice melted - allowing us to depart this morning.
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Bragging on my brother Jeff - he recently earned his M.S. in Systems Engineering from the
Navy Postgraduate School in Monterey (paid in full by his employer Boeing) AND was
awarded The Wayne E. Meyer Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement.  BZ Jeff!

Please be safe - ashore and afloat, Cap'n Pete & AB
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